Chapter 35: Warship Sandbags
Arthur accepted Gion's proposal for a sparring match, and they left the classroom together and came to the training ground illuminated by the sunset.
The two blades kept touching each other -
Every time he took the initiative to attack, Gion would be bounced back by the sudden burst of power from Arthur's arm, which made their sword fighting look very abstract to others.
Gion attacked unilaterally. Arthur defended with only his knife.
"It's true that I'm feeling physically uncomfortable..." Arthur stared at Gion who was constantly waving the Kemperor. The surging and shaking figure made him dizzy.
As he thought about it, he used all his strength and swung his sword, pushing Gion back more than ten meters.
Then she shook her head violently: "No more fighting, big sister!"
"Big sister?" Gion, who was shocked back, steadied himself, frowned and stared at Arthur and said, "I'm only 13 years old, how old are you?"
"You're fucking 13 years old?" Arthur was shocked and couldn't believe it.
Gion now looks very mature, with a sexy figure, and looks completely like a woman.
Now, she tells Arthur that he's 13?
"Oh, 14 years old." Arthur was puzzled. The only thing he could think of was that people in this world matured too early.
"You're older than me... and you call me big sister? Do you think I'm too old?" When Gion heard that Arthur didn't want to fight anymore, he assumed a sword-drawing posture for a swordsman's fatal strike.
The blade is put back into the scabbard, and he lowers his body, stands firm and is ready to go.
"No, you're very beautiful...but I heard that you're Vice Admiral Tsuru's sister?" Arthur sighed and tried to change the subject, which seemed a bit too far-fetched.
"Are you the kind of person who flatters and makes friends based on interpersonal relationships?" Gion drew his sword, appeared in front of Arthur and swung it.
The most fierce and powerful blow in her eyes came the next second...
Ding--!
When Gion was about to slash at Arthur, Kimpilara was suddenly bounced back onto Arthur's head, with the tip of the sword facing the sky, and the power of the sword was completely removed.
"This is Observation Haki! The speed of the sword drawing and slashing was also seen through?" Gion stared at Arthur who was slashing at him with a sword in front of him with a shocked face: "His sword fighting method is to find the flaw in the moment... and kill the person instantly..."
"I'm going to be hit by the blade in his hand!"
The cold air lingered on the blade of the Ice Dragon Blade. Arthur took advantage of the moment when Gion lost his balance, controlled the distance, took a step forward, and slashed down with the blade.
"Ah!" Gion trembled all over, feeling an extremely cold breath quickly spreading throughout his body from the front.
His stiff body took more than ten steps back before stopping. He stood on the training ground, holding his shoulders and shivering from the cold.
"You're wrong, I'm not that kind of person." Arthur put away his knife and walked away unhappily, heading towards the scrapyard at the ship port.
"Wait!" Gion called Arthur with a chill all over his body: "What strange ability did you use on me? Are you a devil fruit user?"
Arthur stopped and turned around, pointing at the sheath on his waist: "You are wrong again, big sister, it is this sheath that made you freeze like this."
"What's the power of that sword!?" Gion's face was filled with shock. He had felt its extraordinaryness during the sparring just now, but he didn't expect it to have such terrifying power.
After Arthur gave his blade a name, he could use the blade's extreme cold power at any time, but he could not use its full strength.
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Marinford Ship Harbor Scrapyard——
"She's only 13 years old? 13 years old? I really can't understand why she has grown so big." Arthur kept gesturing at Gion's body shape with his hands.
"Cooper." (I was only 10, Arthur.)
"I didn't ask you, Cooper."
A man and an eagle came to the scrap yard at the ship port. The sound like a cannonball exploding became more and more violent and closer.
Arthur soon saw a strong, dark-haired middle-aged man punching the front of an abandoned warship.
The solid iron plate at the front of the warship was twisted and dented by the punches, and every punch made a deafening explosion.
"That tall figure is young Cap!" Arthur ran in his direction.
"Cooper!" (That human actually used the warship as a sandbag!)
Cap, who was doing his daily boxing training, noticed someone coming over and suddenly stopped punching and turned to look at Arthur:
"New recruits? Eagle? What are you doing in the abandoned ship port?"
Cap, who was soaked in sweat, carefully looked at Arthur's facial features and quickly recognized him through the information in the file.
"I heard the shrill explosions coming from this side, so I came to check it out." Arthur came in front of Cap and discovered something.
That is the naval hero who is hailed as a legend, and he seems to be no different from ordinary people.
It is the hard work and rigorous training that created the legend.
"Hahahaha~" Karp laughed out loud when he heard that, feeling proud of the noise he had made.
"There are often new recruits who get lost and come to me." Cap said to Arthur in front of him, "When they see me, they all want to train with me, but they can't bear the pain of broken bones and give up and leave."
"Besides, I don't like teaching students, hahaha~"
Hearing what Garp said with a hearty laugh, Arthur became curious and asked:
"Broken bone?"
Garp pointed to the front of the warship in front of him and explained, "Just keep hitting this huge piece of iron with your fists. If you persist for a long time, you will forge a pair of indestructible iron fists."
"This process is very painful, and many people cannot endure the pain of growing up through repeated bone fractures and healing."
These words not only did not make Arthur retreat, but instead he looked at Cap with great interest.
He subconsciously clenched his fists and thought, "If I try Garp's training method, will my physique become stronger? Becoming stronger and joining the navy is indeed the right choice."
Cap sensed Arthur's expectation and immediately asked him:
"Want to try it?"
Arthur brought Cooper to an abandoned warship and took him off his shoulders: "Cooper, stop being lazy. Come and fight too."
"Cooper." (I see, Arthur.)
After settling Cooper, Arthur looked at Cap's expectant expression, walked alone to the bottom of a warship and looked at the huge iron sheet in front of him.
"You can't use Haki or other abilities, kid, otherwise it's not called training." Garp explained the rules of his training and then continued his training.
Arthur also quickly punched the front of the warship in front of him.
He already possesses extraordinary strength, and each of his punches can make a rumbling sound, but compared to Garp's, it is still slightly inferior.
"This guy has amazing talent, haha." Cap looked at Arthur in shock, only then did he realize that the evaluation on the documents sent to the headquarters by the soldiers under Dragon was not false at all.
"It hurts... Can this kind of training really make me stronger?" Arthur gritted his teeth and followed Garp's rhythm, punching continuously.
The first time he struck the front of the warship, the tip of his fist quickly became bloody.
“It’s just like practicing swinging a knife. At first, your palms will get rubbed to a bloody mess. Only a madman would dare to gamble his future with his own body and bones, right?” Arthur swung his sword faster and faster in pain.
There was no slowing down due to the pain.
This kind of training is to allow the broken fist bones to heal and become harder than steel. Arthur needs this kind of physical training.
"Cooper!" (My feet and wings hurt!)
The only screams coming from the Ship Harbor Scrapyard were those of Cooper.
For the next two months, Arthur spent almost all of his free time hitting warships.
Physical fitness has been greatly improved.
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